Posted on 01/14/2020 7:13:30 AM PST by Cronos
Several Iranian officials have offered congratulations to Iranian Christians on the birthday anniversary of Jesus Christ.
President Hassan Rouhani in a message congratulated the leader of the Catholic Church on the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ and the arrival of Christmas.
In his message, Hassan Rouhani congratulated Pope Frances on the arrival of the Christian New Year 2020.
Rouhani described Jesus Christ as a messenger of peace, kindness, freedom and altruism.
“Jesus Christ is a symbol of patience and forbearance, and harbingers dignity and freedom,” read part of the message.
He expressed hope that followers of all divine faiths will step toward the establishment of peace and justice.
Also in a series of tweets, Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei expressed congratulations on the anniversary of Jesus Christ’s birth.
“The honour Muslims attribute to Jesus Christ is no less than his position and merit in the eyes of the Christian believers in Christianity,” he tweeted.
...Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also expressed congratulations on the auspicious occasion as well as the arrival of Christmas.
“I wish a merry Christmas for my Christian compatriots and all those who honour Christmas across the world; I wish them a happy Christmas and a lively and calm holiday,” he tweeted.
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We may soon see the collapse of the Iranian regime
The mosques are already empty most Fridays and there are constant news of underground conversions.
It would be optimistic to say, but it may even be an end of islam in Iran.
Wasn’t there always someone degree of resentment, mostly not expressed, as well as unconscious, of Islam in Iran? Seen as something imposed by invaders back around the eighth century? Underground Christianity, Judaism, even Zoroastrian?
Damage control in a Western way.
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